http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/01/why-we-desperately-need-a-new-and-better-google-2/
We ended up using instead a web-search tool called Blekko. It’s a new technology and is far from perfect; but it is innovative and fills the vacuum of competition with Google (and Bing).
The problem is that content on the internet is growing exponentially and the vast majority of this content is spam. This is created by unscrupulous companies that know how to manipulate Google’s page-ranking systems to get their websites listed at the top of your search results. When you visit these sites, they take you to the websites of other companies that want to sell you their goods. (The spammers get paid for every click.) This is exactly what blogger Paul Kedrosky found when trying to buy a dishwasher. He wrote about how he began Googleing for information…and Googleing…and Googleing. He couldn’t make head or tail of the results. Paul concluded that the “the entire web is spam when it comes to major appliance reviews”.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/23/blekko-duckduckgo/
DuckDuckGo search results will now be powered by Blekko
http://mashable.com/2011/05/17/blekko-flipboard-deal/
http://mashable.com/2011/02/07/blekko-queries/
Blekko’s alternative, human-curated search engine now averages 1 million queries a day and between 10 to 15 queries per second just three months after launch,
http://blekko.com/ws/+/press-articles (click read more)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/technology/08ping.html?_r=2
Google led me to 1.9 million pieces of advice, both good and suspect.
But also among the search results were how-to articles like one saying that if I sipped tea brewed from ground celery seeds or corn silk, the stone would pass within hours. My laughter didn’t reduce the pain.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/blekko-launches/
Ignore for a minute the awkward name: Blekko.
there’s a new search engine in town that’s got a fresh approach to weed out the ever-proliferating junk and spam sites polluting search results.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371827,00.asp
At this point, there do not seem to be any "featured" or paid search results, or advertising.
http://blekko.com/ws/+/privacy
No Facebook:. This feature disables all of blekko’s integration with Facebook.
.No Ads: This feature disables display of all ads on blekko.com. Also, blekko will not send any information identifiable to you (such as, IP Address, user agent string and search keywords) to a third party for advertising or marketing purposes.
Always Use HTTPS on blekko.com:. This feature helps make communications on blekko.com more secure and private, for example making it more difficult for other users to view your blekko.com activity on an unsecured wireless network.
HTTPS Preferred®: This feature helps make links to search results on blekko.com more secure. If you have this option selected, and if blekko has determined that the link you are visiting has an https equivalent, blekko will link to the https version of the website. This makes it more difficult for other users to view your network activity on an unsecured wireles network.
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